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Have you figured out a single view of customer data yet?
Are you feeling the pressure from regulators to sort out your entity data but are frustrated knowing that the promised LEI solution is far from ready? What can you do in the meantime? Some financial institutions are meeting the regulatory requirements by establishing a single client view by cross-referencing data sources to help them achieve their entity data management…
Regulatory Data Handbook 2014
Welcome to the inaugural edition of the A-Team Regulatory Data Handbook. We trust you’ll find this guide a useful addition to the resources at your disposal as you navigate the maze of emerging regulations that are making ever more strenuous reporting demands on financial institutions everywhere. In putting the Handbook together, our rationale has been…
Data Management Summit: Regulation and Cost Drive Adoption of Data Utilities
The potential of reference data utilities to cut data management costs and improve data quality was a hot topic at last week’s A-Team Group Data Management Summit in New York. Most speakers and delegates agreed that data utilities will become part of the capital markets landscape, but exactly how they will operate and how the…
A-Team Group Webinar Offers Insight into the Data Management Challenges of FATCA
The Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA) comes into effect on 1 July 2014 and presents, perhaps, the most challenging data management issues that financial institutions will face this year. The volume of data is one problem, the complexity of requirements is another, and the whole is not helped by recent changes to FATCA rules…
Swift Adds Compliance Analytics Tool for Network Traffic Data
Swift has extended its Compliance Services portfolio with the addition of Compliance Analytics, a business intelligence tool that aggregates Swift network data to help banks visualise their global transaction flows and identify any unexpected activities. Swift touched on the analytics tool back in January when it discussed its intention to build a portfolio of compliance…
Talking Intelligent Trading with Andrew Delaney: A Steep Learning Curve for Adaptive Trading
As many of you know, we like to spend some time with the marketplace to try to understand some of the nuances of the topics we cover, particularly as we prepare for our big conferences, like the forthcoming Intelligent Trading Summit in New York on May 13. Attendees of our London equivalent last month will…
Talking Reference Data with Andrew Delaney: If Only…
I frequently find myself in meetings, on calls, at conferences, listening to people talk about the data and data management impact of regulation. I’ve heard it said many times, by suppliers mostly, that regulation is our friend. And it’s probably fair to say that without regulation, our industry would not be moving at quite the…
Lab49 Describes Development of UBS Neo Cross-Asset Platform
Lab49, a strategy, design and software development consultancy working with investment banks, asset managers and exchanges, has detailed its involvement in the creation of UBS’s Neo cross-asset platform, which is designed to provide access to all UBS Investment Bank products and services, and includes social web technologies and mobile access. The consultancy’s involvement as a…
First Derivatives and Pivotal Collaborate on Next-Generation Data Architecture
First Derivatives (FD) is providing consulting services around technology from Pivotal with a view to helping customers build next-generation data architectures and applications for risk management, regulatory compliance, market surveillance and trading. FD will work initially to help clients install and commission Pivotal software and build out intelligent data lakes using semantic tagging, but expects…
AIM Software Extends Market Reach with Business Applications for Data Management
AIM Software is challenging competitors in the enterprise data management (EDM) space with a business approach to data management that includes fixed price, packaged applications covering market data, reference data and corporate actions data. The Vienna, Austria based company says these solutions, plus a ‘Go West’ strategy focused on expansion in the US and UK,…